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Regex patterns with concatenated raw strings are inferred as Pattern[LiteralString] instead of Pattern[str] #2129

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After upgrading from 0.48.0 to 0.48.1, I now see a warning with code like this:

import re

pattern = re.compile(r'hi' + r'hi')
re.match(pattern, '')  # No matching overload found for function `re.match` called with arguments: (Pattern[LiteralString], Literal['']) [no-matching-overload]

Pyright, ty, mypy, and zuban infer the pattern variable as Pattern[str] instead of Pattern[LiteralString].

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  1. added theissue type on Feb 13, 2026
  2. yangdanny97 commented on Feb 13, 2026

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    I believe this is a case of #2370, the AnyStr in re.compile should only be allowed to resolve to str or bytes, not LiteralString

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